Philosophical Understandings of American School Choice

Wilson, Terri S.

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“…Most of the children had joined the school in Class 8 because they did not have any state high school in their locality. Their families were unable to afford the available low-fee private schools, thus making the actual choice set much narrower than the estimated count of schools in the vicinity (Wilson, 2017). In choosing a school outside their localities, I found that parents’ choice-making process partly relied on children’s feedback from their previous schools and partly relied on informal networks which became the source of ‘hot knowledge’ (Ball & Vincent, 1998).…”

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Situatedness of School Choice among Muslim Students: An Intersectional Approach

Amatullah,

Dixit

2023

Contemporary Education Dialogue

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So far research on school choice sets (decision about choosing a school from an available set of schools) has primarily regarded parents as key actors. Moving beyond, this article emphasises that children are important actors as they inform parental decisions to co-produce certain choice sets. This article foregrounds how school-going Muslim children’s experiences interact with their families to produce school choices across public and private schools in Bangalore, India, while accounting for their marginalisation at the intersections of religion, class and gender. Data were collected from 4 school sites using 21 focus group discussions with 190 children and in-depth interviews with 56 children, 14 teachers and 3 parents and analysed using an intersectional framework. Our findings suggest that factors like heterogeneities in social class, differential levels of religious discrimination/exclusion in schools and a need to protect their faith through education and the complex overlap between these were crucial in shaping choices.

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Situatedness of School Choice among Muslim Students: An Intersectional Approach

Amatullah,

Dixit

2023

Contemporary Education Dialogue

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“…Alongside the mounting empirical evidence on school choice from these two strands of research, a passionate philosophical debate has developed around principles of liberty, pluralism, autonomy, democracy, equity, and justice embedded in this kind of reform (Wilson, 2017). While these theoretical debates have illuminated crucial conceptual discussions in the field of school choice, there has been a call to reconcile philosophical scholarship and empirical studies of parental choice by exploring the "morally, ethically and politically complex nature" of families' decision making (Wilson, 2015), in which this paper is situated.…”

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“…However, he notes, in unjust societies, justice is complex and "is not simply captured by identifying a single value (e.g., educational equality) because other values are also important" (Brighouse, 2008, p.41). Consistent with this perspective and within the field of school choice policies and admission rules, philosophical scholarship has extensively debated the purposes, aims, and values of these reforms, organizing the main disputes around principles such as liberty, rights, pluralism, equality, and democracy (Wilson, 2017).…”

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School admissions and educational justice: Parents' moral dilemmas facing the new Chilean school admission system

Hernández,

Carrasco,

Bonilla

et al. 2023

EPAA

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In the context of the increased interest in social justice within education policy debates, this article addresses the new justice-oriented school admission system implemented in Chile. Considering the critical role of parents in education policy, we explore families’ negotiations about the new school admission system, focusing on the moral dilemmas they experience when confronted with changes in the rules that organize the distribution of school seats and the notions of educational justice they adhere to. We draw on interviews with 80 families from different social classes and belonging to five regions of Chile who were choosing a school under the new school admission system. Our findings underline that—while families tend to agree with the principle of equal formal opportunities in the school admission field—the reform brings in a set of moral dilemmas and competing notions of justice that encompass its different components. Based on these findings, we shed light on the distance between policy intention and interpretation, and between abstract conceptualizations of justice in educational policies and what counts as just policies in families’ views. In addition, we outline a set of implications for justice-oriented reforms worldwide.

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Philosophical Understandings of American School Choice

Cited by 2 publications

References 48 publications

Situatedness of School Choice among Muslim Students: An Intersectional Approach

Situatedness of School Choice among Muslim Students: An Intersectional Approach

School admissions and educational justice: Parents' moral dilemmas facing the new Chilean school admission system

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